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1 I| none' without making any better sense. This has been altered
2 I| King, and thou oughtest better to yield me thankings of
3 I| be stones, but ye smite a better stone, whereof resoundeth
4 I| honour of God. Ne no man may better give to God to his honour
5 I| years. Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee
6 I| them. After this they durst better speak to him. Anon it was
7 I| Egyptians: It had been much better for us to have served the
8 I| down then Amalek had the better. The hands of Moses were
9 II| to affliction? Am I not better to thee than ten sons? Then
10 II| chosen, and there was not a better among all the children of
11 II| to obey his commandments. Better is obedience than sacrifice,
12 II| obedience than sacrifice, and better it is to take heed to do
13 II| the hands of Saul, it is better I flee from him and save
14 II| from Geshur; it had been better for me for to have abiden
15 II| a great thing, but it is better for me to put me in the
16 II| the hands of them. It is better for us to live in captivity
17 II| answer to, for to prove the better the wisdom of him, which
18 II| this thing, for he knoweth better than I, and can better answer
19 II| knoweth better than I, and can better answer to it, for he hath
20 II| dignities of holy church into better reformation than it had
21 II| the feeding of the soul is better than the meat of the body.
22 II| Woodstock for to pray him to be better disposed towards holy church.
23 II| cruelty surmount us. It is better that we leave cruelty and
24 II| and therefore me seemeth better to save the lives of these
25 II| that desert was an hermit better than he, a all. And whiles
26 II| which hath given to me many better jewels, which hath fianced
27 II| him, and he answered much better than tofore. I hear their
28 II| me, thou shalt fare the better. Then he, understanding
29 III| his house, but it seemeth better that it is he that slew
30 III| such wise that it shall be better ordained for to ear and
31 III| of Jesu Christ, and the better to be heard and seen. And
32 III| that him seemed he should better serve God in a secular habit,
33 III| the widow said: Is it not better that thou do to me justice
34 III| them word that they should better keep silence and rule their
35 III| conceive thou shalt know better than I shall con say, for
36 III| ready, and clad him in a better clothing than he had tofore.
37 III| of good men, for he ought better to make joy because they
38 III| that she said that it were better for him to have a pit to
39 III| other thing, for he was no better than dead, yet nevertheless,
40 III| done amiss it may turn to better; and Vespasian said: Who
41 III| trodden bare more corn and better than any other fields beside,
42 III| shalt leave thy realm to one better than thee.~And as they of
43 III| lame, and put forth the better hand to receive the alms.
44 III| men's praising is none the better, ne of others blaming is
45 IV| them she might know the better the manners of their father,
46 IV| shalt vanquish shine enemies better than thou hast ; and then
47 IV| answered they : We love better God than thee, and we doubt
48 IV| multitude of people, and the better for to hear Paul he went
49 IV| alive overcome thee, and better shall vanquish thee when
50 IV| about the idols had been better to have been given to poor
51 IV| and leave thy realm to one better than thou art. And then
52 IV| him was so great that, he better seemed a man made by craft
53 IV| prison, shall inform thee better than I. Then Quirinus cursed
54 IV| paynim, were changed into better, and was made of S. Peter,
55 IV| again, and ye shall prove better and more plainly the truth.
56 IV| the gifts of God is none better than love, for there is
57 IV| in, more meat for to eat, better air to respire, and to see
58 IV| predecessor coveted to make better some things about the body
59 IV| things and the examples be better than the words. And it is
60 IV| Peter said: It appertaineth better to thee to bear it, for
61 IV| things semblable, which be better not to believe them than
62 IV| body, and that I had been better visited of thy blessed mother,
63 IV| dissolution, and is transported to better and more holy life without
64 IV| ought and appertaineth better to be there as he is, than
65 V| contemplation, by which he might the better have mind of the most holy
66 V| sweetly: If it be so, it is better that I receive thee, than
67 V| shall be changed into a better. And then he was anon beheaded,
68 V| make them whole, but might better them but for a while. And
69 V| sick people, and he loved better at his table lessons and
70 V| be made of the worse the better, and not of the better the
71 V| the better, and not of the better the worse. And he confessed
72 V| some manners be esteemed better than they be.~This holy
73 V| judge said: It had been better to thee to lose thy debt
74 V| thou not our gods? It is better that thou die alone than
75 V| false and lieth, but it is better to us to suffer than she
76 V| sword, and judged himself better to vanquish in suffering
77 V| the weal of a multitude is better and more worthy than the
78 V| neck for to conduct the better the camels. And when the
79 V| womb; he hath enhanced to a better kingdom my son, and to reign
80 V| without end, which is much better than thy kingdom is. And
81 V| change their life into a better. And when Ebroinus heard
82 VI| fantasy, but others that were better advised, wept and sorrowed
83 VI| man, let him expound it better, or else let him abide a
84 VI| And because it may the better be seen, let us imagine
85 VI| in the four things, it is better showed in the ordinance
86 VI| good counsel maketh a man better and more perfect. This medicine
87 VI| because that she might the better show to writers and preachers
88 VI| is good, but virginity is better. S. Jerome saith to Palmatius
89 VI| as is between good and better. For marriage is compared
90 VI| knight changed his life into better and at the day slept in
91 VI| herself for to please him the better. And when he had agreed
92 VI| ground, or for to take the better her rest she lay otherwhile
93 VI| no cloister was silence better kept ne holden, there was
94 VI| is to say that she loved better a rude sermon well edifying
95 VI| handmaid of God, of whom he had better proved the holy life than
96 VI| pope said that they ought better do the office of virgins
97 VI| dear son dead ? Me were better die than live. When the
98 VI| offering of a thousand hosties. Better is obedience than sacrifice.
99 VI| that the king should be better disposed, and in likewise
100 VI| God that the king would better be disposed and forsake
101 VII| liegemen, without ye take better advice to your noble courage.
102 VII| reason that there is one much better than I can devise him, and
103 VII| judge truly, whom ought I better to choose of these two,
104 VII| him, because they saw no better to his correction in his
105 VII| that he hath rewarded me better than I have deserved, for
106 VII| ashamed that we live not better. Then S. Paul said to S.
107 VII| to S. Brandon: Thou art better than I, for our Lord hath
108 VII| wherefore thou art much better than I. To whom S. Paul
109 VII| forgive it me, for thou art better than I. John would have
110 VII| shall be in another, much better without comparison, and
111 VII| Josaphat said: Thou seemest better to be seventy years, and
112 VII| sharp words, for a child is better reformed by fair and sweet
113 VII| he advised that it were better to take and hold with the
114 VII| thence forthon, ever from better unto better, devoutly and
115 VII| forthon, ever from better unto better, devoutly and by holy perseverance
116 VII| Turien multiplied ever from better to better in the love and
117 VII| multiplied ever from better to better in the love and grace of
118 VII| thoughts, to the end that better he might declare his intention,
119 VII| the end that thou mayst better receive my words. Then said
120 VII| end that thou mayst the better understand my answer, proceed
121 VII| ever in good virtues from better to better multiplied, and
122 VII| good virtues from better to better multiplied, and much victoriously
123 VII| and persevered ever from better to better in spiritual deeds,
124 VII| persevered ever from better to better in spiritual deeds, and
125 VII| strong in him, that the more better he waxed, so, as David,
126 VII| men supposed and believed better that God had sent and inspired
127 VII| and patriarchs may the better be showed.~After, the priest
128 VII| I ne wot it the more ne better than I did tofore. The third
129 VII| tormentors merrily: I lie here better than I am worthy, for I
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